Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun sg] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 24-year-old central defender will have his right leg immobilised for six weeks and will miss the play-offs should Boro qualify . |
| 2 | A former Lieutenant-Colonel in the Queen 's Dragoon Guards , Mr. Mates had been tipped as a future defence secretary but his ill-fated decision to campaign for Mr. Heseltine put paid to that . |
| 3 | His public utterances were examined for heresy , his private life combed for scandal . |
| 4 | ‘ To forget his faithful partner waiting for him . |
| 5 | Versions of his marine thermometer served for deep-sea measurements throughout the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | They took £60 in cash from the one-legged war veteran but Coulton , 18 , learned how Mr Simpson kept his back door unlocked for visitors and returned in September to burgle the house again . |
| 7 | I suspect that the answer is ‘ not many ’ for I would guess that this phase of his distinguished career lasted for just one year . |
| 8 | His free hand reached for the bottle again , then pulled back . |
| 9 | He spent most of his free time working for the Overseas Workers ' Union , a clandestine anti-colonial organisation chiefly recruited from Indians and Chinese . |
| 10 | The people in the photographs in the brochure — a man , his wife , his two children and his stupid , stupid luggage , his folding chairs , his folding table , his hamper , his sensible suitcase packed for his sensible holiday — were exactly how Henry imagined the advertisers thought of him . |
| 11 | His actions were deliberate , his trained eye looking for any bugs that might be hidden in the room . |
| 12 | Like Newman , he frequently used his official status to polemicize for a holistic conception of medicine , which took in moral and social factors as part of the new scientific advances . |
| 13 | … His wide ranging culture , his intelligence , his unbelievable activity and his absolute impartiality won for him his unique prestige and popularity with the population . ’ |
| 14 | So many and so extraordinary were the stories she told me that our trip around his tiny château lasted for more than an hour and a half , with not a boring moment . |
| 15 | By the second of eight peaks Ervine was well clear but continued to keep his fast pace going for the full 14 mile distance and knocked over nine minutes off the course record clocking 2 hours 14 minutes 16 seconds . |
| 16 | Craigie Aitchison is his leading artist looking for a new representation . |
| 17 | If it is said of a barrister that he has refused to appear for an unsavoury criminal , the ordinary reader may applaud , but his professional reputation is lowered amongst colleagues who understand the story to mean that he has betrayed his ethical duty to appear for all who seek his services . |
| 18 | His anthropological attempt to account for spatial variations in the nature of politics is countered by others who associate the origins of political variations across the earth 's surface with variations within the sphere of production ( notably with the core-periphery structure of the capitalist world-economy : Johnston , 1984d , 1989d ; Taylor , 1989 ) . |
| 19 | He had Owen 's letter in the breast of his tunic , and his harp tucked away behind his shoulder , and three days of his promised week left for getting back into Shrewsbury . |
| 20 | He uses his long bill to probe for worms , grubs and other insects , and as his nostrils are at the tip he has to clear it by forcing out air . ’ |
| 21 | It occurred to him that a full belly was not all he had his tedious employment to thank for . |
| 22 | Doubt was cast on Cameron 's results partly by the lack of control data he offered , and , later , after his death , his reputation for scientific integrity was irretrievably damaged by the revelation that much of his experimental work had for a long time been secretly supported by the CIA , including some rather insidious studies of the effects of covertly administered LSD on the behaviour of unsuspecting people . |
| 23 | He smiled and nodded to the words of greeting from the crowd , and his blind face searched for someone . |
| 24 | He was jitterbugging with the recoil , and the gun 's momentum kept his first sweep going for a couple of yards even after he realised he 'd missed me . |
| 25 | But his first star signing for Leeds was James Speirs , at twenty-six Bradford City 's top scorer and one of the best inside-lefts in the country . |
| 26 | If at times Hope needed women to a point of desperate madness , so , at other times , he ached for wealth so badly that he heard his inner voice crooning for it , like the ululation of a gin-addicted street beggar , the sound suddenly there but as if never absent , an ancient and ineradicable longing . |
| 27 | Who did he think he was anyway , with his ridiculous conjuring tricks for beginners ? |
| 28 | His gloved hand groped for the torch in his coat pocket . |
| 29 | She imagined the young doctor coming to this simple village , the home of his grandmother , to build his business empire , getting to know and love the villagers as he did so , and deciding to live with them and spend his spare time caring for them as a doctor . |
| 30 | Neighbours spoke of a quiet man who spent most of his spare time working for charity . |